An Example of Xibo Open Source Digital Signage

This video shows an example of a Xibo Open Source Digital Signage layout in action.

Have Yahoo weather RSS as a roll

Have Student Notices (word converted to text, then pasted into text region) as a roll (currently, we will use an RSS feed instead for remote update of the announcements)

Have photos in an image region.  We will use Powerpoint to show the photos since it is easier to import a folder of photos to create a slideshow in Powerpoint.

Have a digital clock as a webpage (corner of webpage) -  used the website with GMT time since the NTP timer servers are blocked by the school division.

Xibo - Open Source Digital Signage

I managed to setup Xibo today.  I had trouble setting up the Xibo server on a Ubuntu 10.10 workstation yesterday. So, today, I tried to setup the server on a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz running Windows XP Pro.  Had to install Apache and MySQL server first.  It took about half an hour to setup the server properly.  Next, I installed the client on a Windows 7 Pro computer.  Had to setup a user and permissions properly, but eventually got it to scroll an RSS feed and display 2 pictures (alternating at 1 second intervals).  The only other alternative free digital signage solution is Concerto from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Concerto is a pure Linux solution though - server and client must be on a *nix machine. The installation instructions were much sketchier for Concerto than Xibo, consequently, I chose Xibo.  Now, Xibo might not have as many features as a commercial solution such as Harris Infocaster, but it works and it is much less buggy.  Yet another great Open Source Solution!